Here it’s similar. I’ve found out that if to the question

do you have our membership?

I respond “No, thank you”, they often understand correctly and don’t assume I want to set one up

I’ve heard that too. But I don’t really have an opinion on other authors, I’m more often exploring the lore for a run instead of reading Sixth World fiction, unfortunately

Illusion — Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?

Because we keep reading sensationalist advertisements presented as articles instead of experimenting with it ourselves, understanding what it is

And unfortunately, this article is also just a response to media clickbait, not a discussion point it tries to look like

I think it will depend on what exactly is in the PDF. If these are text, you can in a pinch just copy and paste it but I’d expect libreoffice to be able to open it. If these are images, you’ll have to use some OCR

In general whatever anyone does to anything, current userbase will 90% of the time be against it. But

“Next, we’ll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline,” Musk posted in a subscriber-only post on X in October of last year. “Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post.”

So the main thing will be views. Not how many agree, how many object. Views
And probably it will also become the main analytic datapoint

Shit in, shit out

In general the impression I have from reading various sources is that Cyberpunk missions are good sources

So far I like some of missions in Tales of Night City.

You mean this?

Yeah, in the end you’ll always end up doing an inspiration rather than running it directly. But among pre-prepared missions there are those that are flexible and those that rely on assumptions. I was hoping that maybe someone had looked at this book and has an opinion which category these fall in

Request: if you decide to add new blogs, could you also make a post about it on your blog, please?

After some time I discovered that I’d prefer narrower choice of blogs, so I copied your selection and manually created my own list. But I’d still like to leverage your moderation, so if you wrote about it on your blog, I would know to check them out

I don’t think there’s one answer to that. To me it depends on the context of the clock and what’s your plan for pacing. Also it will be part of your style that you just have to find for yourself, what works for you

(Cyberpunk examples)

• Tripping guards suspicion on-site: one small clock
  Consequence is not an alarm yet but from now on everything that has to do with guards can have lower position
• Tripping alarms for the whole building: bigger clock
  Or don’t set up such clock at all if everything going completely south doesn’t fit your overarching plot plans
• Mafia responds to characters asking around: small clock
  They have reputation to uphold, they can’t have someone nosing around in visible way Consequence:
  • someone who said something gets in trouble, making others harder to work with (lower position)
  • Mafia learns who they are (if that would be serious problem for the whole run, I’d make it a bigger clock)
  • They get set up and have an unplanned meeting with a bunch of enforcers
  • It gets so obvious that they get contacted by this group’s opponents and the situation is stacked that characters either comply with demands or will have very hard time completing the run
• Police/corp responds to characters doing runs against the corp
  • If you plan the corp to be present in the plot, make it a big clock to fill it after a few runs
    • Or make it small to force the characters to manage their footprint from the early stage (lower position when doing things the corp can piece together)
  • If it makes sense that corp would first send police after them, make it two small clocks
  • If you don’t care about the corp, make it a short clock, to hopefully resolve it during this session
    If they manage to not fill it, after all, keep the clock for the future. The next time you feel it’s going too well for them, you can fill this clock instead of more current one. Suddenly bringing old grudges into the mix

So depending on what you want to do it’s either bigger or smaller clock, with consequences either in fiction or mechanical

When I don’t have the time to enable sheltered apps, I use Firefox with uBlock and AutoCookieDelete to watch the links
Last time I did this was a few hours ago

Characters in the title are not the regular ones making it look like a spam mail, no link, description sounds like corpo LLM. If there really is some podcast somewhere, I think it deserves better

Yeah, I was wrong

Is there a limit to one-time cards

There should be something about that in the Revolut EULA or something like that. But I’ve never encountered it. The moment the payment goes through, a new card appears in the app

Can you elaborate But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

It’s a business. A closed source. They are of course bound by laws and regulations but there’s practically no way to make sure they aren’t selling transaction data/statistics under the table. Also, the cards issued by them are either visa or mastercard (IDR), so these companies have that info too. And I’d bet they sell transactions analytics
Then there’s also the matter of telemetry. Apart from telemetry gathered by the app for Revolut, I guess there’s no way to use it without Gapps

FWIW I did not notice an influx of spam after registering an account. But that doesn’t prove anything, of course

We can’t inspect the code of the app. So it’s probably only as private as other bank apps

most banks do not support NFC payments in their apps

Huh? All the other banks I use support it

But you’re right regarding Revolut. I just checked and I was wrong, it’s not there in the settings. I have no idea how I used it with NFC in the past, then. Most of the time I use BLIK

WDYM by source? You just open phone settings, NFC and choose Revolut to be the app to be used with NFC
If you choose to be issued physical card there probably is a way to just copy it physically into NFC but I haven’t used that
Revolut is just another bank. It’s just a little less behind the times than most

I’m not sure what “tap to pay” is and I haven’t used privacy.com. But you can attach your Revolut card to NFC in phone. Without going through Google Wallet
It also issues one-time cards that get destroyed after one use
In general it’s pretty handy, even if as pre-paid account

But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

access my documents on my different computers or my Android phone

I had similar setup but I was using obsidian and pcloud. Syncing up&down was done by scripts using rclone/roundsync (android). Script part might be harder to achieve using windows

But I came here to say that I finally decided to test syncthing and it’s so much easier! And just works. Now pcloud is rather a backup and sharing than gateway

WONTFIX: Works as intended

sometimes my notes are more detailed than his

Impressive! :)